Starz has announced the movie and TV titles coming to the service in May. The Starz May 2023 schedule includes the season two premiere of Run the World, the season three finale of Power Book II: Ghost, and the season two finale of Blindspotting.
On the film front, notable titles joining the Starz app this month include On Sacred Ground, The Beach, Van Helsing, The Banger Sisters, Public Enemies, and Paper Man.
You can view the full Starz May 2023 schedule below and you’ll find the titles that are leaving underneath. We’ve also included a selection of the May collections and marathons.
STARZ MAY 2023 HIGHLIGHTS
The Originals available as part of the Starz May 2023 schedule.
RUN THE WORLD SEASON 2
Run the World will premiere Friday, May 26 at midnight (ET) on the Starz app, all STARZ streaming and on-demand platforms. On linear, it will debut on STARZ at 9:30PM ET/PT in the U.S. and Canada.
Run the World chronicles the euphoric highs and heartbreaking lows that Whitney, Renee and Sondi must endure in their pursuit of world domination. Whitney must follow the road of self-discovery in order to thrive in her life with or without Ola, while Renee and Sondi must decide what they truly want out of life – both in love and their careers.
Whether they reunite with a past love, taste the life of a millionaire, or see their career take off in a radical new direction, these powerful Black women, fortified by their impenetrable friendship, won’t let anything get in their way.
POWER BOOK II: GHOST SEASON 3
The high-octane drama Power Book II: Ghost continues its third season with all-new episodes Fridays at midnight on the Starz app, all Starz streaming and on-demand platforms and internationally on Lionsgate+ premium streaming platform in the UK and Brazil. On linear, the episodes will debut on Starz Fridays at 8:00 pm ET/PT in the U.S. and Canada.
The third season of Power Book II: Ghost kicks off with Tariq St. Patrick determined to get his trust, get back to his family, and get out of the game for good. The emergence of a ruthless new connect interrupts Tariq’s plans to reunite with Tasha and Yaz and puts him, Brayden, and Effie back into business with the Tejadas as they’re challenged to move more weight than ever before.
When Brayden brings Tariq in as an intern at his family’s hedge fund Weston Holdings, the drug business expands beyond Stansfield and the streets onto Wall Street, while Tariq is also shown an alternate, legitimate path to success. Monet Tejada, set ablaze by the death of her son Zeke Cross, is willing to pay a hefty price to avenge her firstborn and keep the rest of her children — and the business — in line as she works closely with Davis MacLean to solve Zeke’s murder and keep the feds off her trail.
Business is booming when a staggering reveal forces Tariq to reckon with a betrayal from those closest to him… and a R.I.C.O. investigation mounting into the entire drug enterprise, pulling Tariq deeper into the business and even closer to the legacy of his father.
BLINDSPOTTING SEASON 2
All-new episodes of the critically-acclaimed comedy series Blindspotting will be available beginning Fridays at midnight on the Starz app, and all Starz streaming and on-demand platforms in the U.S. and Canada. On linear, the episodes will debut on Starz Fridays at 9:00 pm ET/PT in the U.S. and Canada.
Blindspotting is co-created by Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs, with Casal also starring in the series alongside Emmy winner Jasmine Cephas Jones and Academy Award winner Helen Hunt.
Season two picks up nine months after Ashley and Miles’s prison nuptials in the season one finale, Ashley is doing backflips to try and raise Sean on her own. She is reaching her breaking point and is taking it out on everyone around her.
Miles is adjusting to life on the inside and counting down the days before their first family visitation weekend at San Quentin. Rainey (Hunt) is doing her best to make Ashley and Sean feel at home while trying to find a way to stay connected to her son behind bars, but Ashley holds all the cards.
Trish’s (Jaylen Barron) new business is flourishing, but she is dealing with jealousy issues now that her best friend and business partner Jacque (April Absynth) is dating Cuddie (Lance Holloway). Janelle (Candace Nicholas-Lippman) is growing frustrated with Ashley’s constant need for support and has begun to miss her life back in Bali.
And then of course Earl (Benjamin Turner), fresh out of prison himself for unintentionally breaking his probation, has moved out of Nancy’s (Margo Hall) house and is trying to re-establish a relationship with his own family, and his past. Welcome back to the ordeal.
STARZ MAY 2023 TITLES
AVAILABLE MAY 1
7 Days in Entebbe, 2018
ATL, 2006
Belly, 1998
Belly 2: Millionaire Boyz Club, 2008
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes, 1970
Black Cop, 2017
Children Of Men, 2006
Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes, 1972
Dante’s Peak, 1997
Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, 2006
Destined, 2016
Empire, 2002
Escape From The Planet Of The Apes, 1971
Field Of Dreams, 1989
Flipper, 1996
Frighteners, The, 1996
Junior, 1994
Juwanna Mann, 2002
Killing Them Softly, 2012
League of Gods, 2016
LUV, 2012
My Best Friend, 2016
National Lampoon’s Dirty Movie, 2011
National Lampoon’s Dorm Daze 2, 2006
On Sacred Ground, 2023
Phat Beach, 1996
Planet Of The Apes, 1968
Public Enemies, 2009
Roman J. Israel, Esq., 2017
Saw, 2004
Saw II, 2005
Saw III, 2006
Saw IV, 2007
Saw V, 2008
Saw VI, 2009
Saw: The Final Chapter, 2010
Scent Of A Woman, 1992
Scream 4, 2011
Still Mine, 2013
Things Never Said, 2013
Tigerland, 2000
Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail, 2009
Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?, 2007
Van Helsing, 2004
Vanity Fair, 2004
Your Highness, 2011
AVAILABLE MAY 2
Private War, A, 2018
Saturday Church, 2018
AVAILABLE MAY 5
Blindspotting, “Karate Kiss” – Episode 205
Power Book II: Ghost, “Sacrifice” – 308
AVAILABLE MAY 12
Banger Sisters, The, 2002
Baseketball, 1998
Beach, The, 2000
Carpool, 1996
ECCO, 2019
Elizabeth, 1998
Elizabeth: The Golden Age, 2007
Eye Of The Beholder, 1999
Groomsmen, The, 2006
I Could Never Be Your Woman, 2008
Loveless, 2018
MacGruber, 2010
Nerdland, 2016
Nobel Son, 2007
Paper Man, 2009
Parkland, 2013
Queen of Spain, The, 2016
Ruben Brandt, Collector, 2018
Submergence, 2017
Tortilla Soup, 2001
Tracktown, 2016
Wild Tales, 2014
With Drawn Arms, 2020
Blindspotting, “Good, the Bad, and the Thizzly, The” – Episode 206
AVAILABLE MAY 17
Side Effects, 2013
AVAILABLE MAY 19
Blindspotting, “Meatfest” – Episode 207
Power Book II: Ghost, “Last Gift, A” – Episode 309
AVAILABLE MAY 26
Blindspotting, “Return to Ithaca” – Episode 208
Power Book II: Ghost, “Divided We Stand” – Episode 310
Run the World, “Dream Deferred, A” – Episode 201
LEAVING STARZ IN MAY 2023
In addition to the Starz May 2023 lineup, the following is a list of titles leaving the service.
LEAVING MAY 1
About Last Night, 2014
Monuments Men, The, 2014
Pompeii, 2014
LEAVING MAY 6
Escape Room, 2019
LEAVING MAY 14
Fifty Shades Of Black, 2016
LEAVING MAY 17
Here Today, 2021
LEAVING MAY 24
Tim’s Vermeer, 2014
LEAVING MAY 25
Drunk Parents, 2019
LEAVING MAY 31
2 Minutes of Fame, 2020
Abandon, 2002
About Time, 2013
Adult Beginners, 2015
Ahead Of The Curve, 2021
Aloft, 2015
American Son, 2008
Approaching The Unknown, 2016
ATL, 2006
Before We Go, 2015
Behind the Curtain: Todrick Hall, 2017
Better Luck Tomorrow, 2003
Boyz N The Hood, 1991
Breaking Up, 1997
Cape Fear, 1991
Chamber, The, 1996
Cheech & Chong’s Hey Watch This, 2010
Death Race, 2008
Death Race 2, 2010
Death Race 3: Inferno, 2013
Death Race: Beyond Anarchy, 2018
Derailed, 2005
Devil, 2010
Devil’s Double, The, 2011
Dracula II: Ascension, 2003
Dracula III: Legacy, 2005
Eagle Huntress, The, 2016
Empire, 2002
End Of Days, 1999
Facing Ali, 2009
Fear and Loathing in Aspen, 2021
Field Of Dreams, 1989
For A Good Time, Call…, 2012
Four Kids And It, 2020
Friday The 13th, Part III, 1982
Friday The 13th, Part IV: The Final Chapter, 1984
Friday The 13th, Part V: A New Beginning, 1985
Friday The 13th, Part VI: Jason Lives, 1986
Friday The 13th, Part VII: The New Blood, 1988
Friday The 13th, Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan, 1989
Fright Night 2: New Blood, 2013
Gateway, The, 2021
Gift, The, 2000
Gridlock’d, 1997
Grudge, The, 2004
Hail, Caesar!, 2016
Hangman, The, 1959
High Noon, 1952
Highway, 2012
How to Deter a Robber, 2020
Huey P. Newton Story, A, 2001
Hurricane, The, 1999
Idiocracy, 2006
Impostor, 2001
In America, 2003
In The Mix, 2005
Jarhead, 2005
Jarhead 2: Field Of Fire, 2014
Josie And The Pussycats, 2001
Legend, 2015
Man About Town, 2006
Man Who Knew Too Little, The, 1997
Mansfield Park, 1999
Marine, The, 2006
Mermaid, The, 2016
Mountain Men, The, 1980
Mrs. Brown, 1997
New Daughter, The, 2009
Permanent Midnight, 1998
Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, The, 2005
Redemption Day, 2021
Reservation Road, 2007
Rio Conchos, 1964
Séptimo, 2013
She’s the One, 1996
Simply Irresistible, 1999
Switchback, 1997
Time Machine, The, 2002
Timeline, 2003
Top Secret!, 1984
Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail, 2009
Uncommon Valor, 1983
Undercover Brother, 2002
Undercover Brother 2, 2019
Van Helsing, 2004
View From The Top, 2003
War of the Wildcats, 1943
Wes Craven Presents: Dracula 2000, 2000
Where’s the Money, 2017
Young And Prodigious T.S. Spivet, The, 2013
Your Highness, 2011
Youth In Revolt, 2010
Zulu, 2013
NOTABLE COLLECTIONS
AAPI HERITAGE MONTH (MAY 1 – 31)
Titles include: Amelia, Assassins, Beautiful Boy, Better Luck Tomorrow, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Deliver Us From Evil, Destroyer, Fantasy Island, The Gateway, The Grudge, The Hit, Horsemen, Immortals, Journey to the West The Demons Strike Back, Jumanji: The Next Level, Kiss of the Dragon, League of Gods, The Mermaid, The Misfits, The Namesake, Nine Days, Rapid Fire, S.M.A.R.T. Chase, and The Slammin’ Salmon.
MOTHER’S DAY (MAY 1 – 15)
Titles include: Lila & Eve, “Blindspotting,” 10 Things to Do Before We Break Up, After the Wedding, Aloft, The Banger Sisters, Beautiful, Bogus, Boundaries, East Side Sushi, Fast Color, For the Love of Money, Friends with Kids, I Could Never Be Your Woman, Little Women, Measure of Revenge, Monster’s Ball, Moondance Alexander, A Mouthful of Air, Paper Spiders, Parallel Mothers, The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio, Puzzle, Rare Beasts, Tortilla Soup and “Power Book III: Raising Kanan.”
ROBBERY IN PROGRESS – CAPTIVATING THRILLERS (MAY 2 – 8)
Titles include: Public Enemies, Killing Them Softly, Derailed, The Package, The Misfits, The Hurricane Heist, S.M.A.R.T. Chase, The Gateway, and How to Deter a Robber.
TRYING TO GET BY – BLINDSPOTTING IS BACK (MAY 2 – 8)
Titles include: Roman J. Israel, Esq., Jean of the Joneses, Tyler Perry’s Good Deeds, Annie, Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married?, Aloha, Silver Linings Playbook, and “Blindspotting.”
STARS OF OUTLANDER – OUTLANDER RETURNS JUNE 16 (MAY 9 – 15)
Titles include: Bloodshot, Money Monster, Underworld: Blood Wars, The Wicker Tree, Colombiana, The Walk, “Men in Kilts: A Roadtrip with Sam and Graham” and “Outlander.”
FANTASY FEAST – EPIC ADVENTURES (MAY 16 – 22)
Titles include: Your Highness, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian, Men In Black: International, Paranorman, Eragon, Jumanji: The Next Level, League of Gods, The Mermaid, Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back, and Four Kids and It.
WE ARE FIERCE – RUN THE WORLD IS BACK 5/26 (MAY 16 – 25)
Titles include: Charlie’s Angels, Alice, Colombiana, “Gaslit,” “The Serpent Queen,” Elizabeth, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, For the Love of Money, and Amelia.
MEMORIAL DAY – REMEMBER THE FALLEN (MAY 23 – 29)
Titles include: Fury, Jarhead, A Journal for Jordan, The Thin Red Line, Zero Dark Thirty, U-571, Brothers, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, and Tigerland.
MARVEL MAYHEM – SWING INTO ACTION (MAY 26 – JUNE 5)
Titles include: Spider-Man: No Way Home (Extended Version), Spider-Man: Far From Home, Venom: Let There be Carnage, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Guardians of the Galaxy, Captain America: the Winter Soldier, X-Men: First Class, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men, and X2: X-Men United.
NOTABLE MARATHONS
STARZ
“Gaslit” Season One Replays, Every Sunday, April 30- May 28
“Minx” Season One Marathon, May 13 -14 at 9:30 pm ET/PT
“Run the World” Season One Marathon, May 21 at 12:30 pm ET/PT
“Blindspotting” End of Season Marathon, May 27 at 4:15 pm ET/PT
“Gaslit” Season One Marathon, May 29 at 1:00 pm ET/PT
STARZ ENCORE
“Run the World” Double episodes of Season One, Every Night May 22- 25 at 8:00 pm ET/PT
STARZ EDGE
“Run the World” Double episodes of Season One, Every Night May 22- 25 at 10:00 pm ET/PT
STARZ COMEDY
“Minx” Season One Marathon, May 29 at 7:00 pm ET/PT
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills in 2018 to cover the latest news on streaming, movies, TV, and video games.